CSS Negative Margins - Part One

Of all the pieces of the CSS box model, margins are probably the easiest to grasp. But did you know that margin is one of the few CSS properties that can have negative values? This article explains how negative margins work, as well as why you would even want to use negative margins in the first place! You'll see some of the cool visual effects that negative margining can help you add to your web pages. This article will also prepare you for an upcoming piece describing how to use negative margins to create cross-browser, CSS columnar layouts.

The CSS Negative Margins Series
CSS Negative Margins - Part One
CSS Negative Margins - Part Two: Two-Column Liquid Layouts
CSS Negative Margins - Part Three: Improving the Two-Column Layout
CSS Negative Margins - Part Four: Three-Column Liquid Layouts